Nearly forgot to mention Edinburgh Airport has a Pirates of the Carribbean promotion on. this means that some poor soul (probably from the marketing dept) had to dress up as Captain Jack Sparrow and walk about looking as if he wished that the ground would swallow him up instead of hamming it up like a true pirate would. Naturally the costume and wig didn't fit very well and the poor chap was a just bit too old for the part.
I think big corporations really enjoy making staff participate in these sort of events especially if they make people look and feel daft (Its a development opportunity stoopid!). I'm sure this is why staff uniforms are often such dreadful colours too.
There is also this odd perception that its cheaper to make a member of staff do it than to hire an actor or promo person. Yeah right of course it is why not pay someone to be even more pissed off with their job than normal at twice the rate of a resting artiste and lose a day's work out of them too.
Mind you when I was in PR, I did it myself just to get out of the office, I made a lovely reindeer, a regal Roman Emperor and a rowdy cowboy, but the worst ever was being the back half of a rhino. You just don't want to go there!
